Jim Colbert attended Kansas State Univ. where he finished 2nd in the NCAA golf championships in 1964, before graduating and turning professional in 1965. As a pro, Colbert won eight times on the PGA Tour, including twice in 1983 when he finished a career best fifteenth on the money list. As a senior pro, Colbert has won 24 tournaments on the Champions Tour, including the 1993 Senior Players Championship, and was the Tour’s leading money winner in 1995 and 1996. He's worked as a golf analyst for ESPN and has his own golf management company based in Las Vegas. He's been inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame, the Nevada Sports Hall of Fame & the First Tee of Southern Nevada Hall of Fame.

Dr. Joseph Parent is the best selling author of Zen Golf and a distinguished PGS tour instructor. Dr. Parent is also a resident PGA instructor at the Ojai Valley Spa and Inn Golf Course.

Michael O'Keefe is a well-known actor on Broadway, and in Hollywood films and television.

O'Keefe's best known film role is Danny Noonan in the comedy film Caddyshack. He received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role in The Great Santini. He had a longstanding television role on the ABC series Roseanne and guest appearances on "Saving Grace," "The West Wing," Criminal Minds, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and M*A*S*H.

His Excellency Antoine Chedid assumed the office of Lebanese Ambassador to the US in July 2007, following service as Head of the Bureau of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beirut since June 2001.

Ambassador Chedid entered the Foreign Service in 1978 and has been a member of 12 Lebanese delegations to the UN General Assembly in New York.